Spanish 2540 'Latino' Literatures & Cultures

Spring 2008

(Prepared October 21, 2007; Last Update: Feb 13, 2008)

 

Syllabus
Schedule
Assignments
Bibliography/Links

 

Bibliography/Links

Art

  1. Bosch, Lynette M.F. "Chapter Three:  La Vieja Guardia", in her   Cuban American Art in Miami:  Exile, Identity and the Neo-Baroque. Hampshire and Burlington VT:  Lund Humphries, 2004, pp. 42-63.
  2. _____. "Chapter Four:  A Younger Generation:  Juan Gonzalez, Emilio Falero, Ramon Guerrero, Carlos Macia and Juan Carlos Llera", in her   Cuban American Art in Miami..., pp. 64-95.
  3. _____. "Chapter Five:  Exile and Memory:  Arturo Rodriguez, Maria Brito, Humberto Calzada, Demi, Mario Bencomo, Pablo Cano, Miguel Padura and Maria Lino", in her   Cuban American Art in Miami..., pp. 96-137.
  4. _____. "Chapter Six:  In and Out of Miami:  Alberto Rey, Luis Cruz Azaceta, Paul Sierra, Ana Ferrer and Geandy Pavon-Zayas", in her   Cuban American Art in Miami..., pp. 138-56.
  5. _____. "Conclusion:  towards a Theory of Cuban-American Art", in her   Cuban American Art in Miami..., pp. 157-66.
  6. Goldman, Shifra. Dimensions of the Americas: Art & Social Change in Latin America and the United States. [FINISH]
  7. Griswold del Castillo, Richard, Teresa McKenna, and Yvonne Yarbro-Bejarano, eds. Chicano art : resistance and affirmation, 1965-1985. Los Angeles : Wight Art Gallery, University of California, 1991.
  8. Keller, Gary D., Mary Erickson and Pat Villeneuve. Chicano Art for our Millennium: Collected Works from the Arizona State University Community. Tempe: Bilingual Press/Editorial Bilingüe, 2004.
  9. Keller, Gary D., et. al. Contemporary Chicana and Chicano art : artists, works, culture, and education. Tempe: Bilingual Press/Editorial Bilingüe, 2002.
  10. Pérez-Torres, Rafael. "Land and Race in Chicano Public Art", in his Mestizaje: Critical Uses of Race in Chicano Culture. Minneapolis:  U. of Minnesota Press, 2006, pp. 115-52.
  11. Ybarra-Frausto, Tomás. "The Chicano Movement/The Movement of Chicano Art", in Mosquera, Gerardo. Beyond the Fantastic: Contemporary Art Criticism from Latin America. London, Cambridge: The Institue of International Visual Arts, MIT Press, 1996, pp. 165-82.
  12. Web

Census Data

  1. Catanzarite, Lisa. "California's Growing Latino Population: Census 2000 Dismantles Stereotypes", Latino Policy and Issues Brief, No. 5 (March 2003).
  2. "From a Child's Perspective: Detroit Metropolitan Census 2000 Fact Sheets Series", 4, Issue 1 (Jan 2004). [PDF]
  3. Grieco, Elizabeth M. and Rachel C. Cassidy, "Overview of Hispanic Race and Origin: Census 2000 Brief". U.S. Census Bureau. [PDF]
  4. Web
    1. http://www.census.gov/pubinfo/www/NEWhispML1.html
    2. http://www.census.gov/population/www/socdemo/hispanic.html
    3. http://www.infoplease.com/spot/hhmcensus1.html
    4. http://www.infoplease.com/ipa/A0779064.html
    5. http://quickfacts.census.gov/qfd/meta/long_68188.htm
    6. http://www.nhlbi.nih.gov/health/prof/heart/latino/lat_pop.htm
    7. http://www.nflc.org/REACH/3latinos/latinoscenen.htm
    8. http://www.azteca.net/aztec/chicano.html
    9. http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/3238523.stm
    10. http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/2682027.stm

Chicanos

  1. "Chicano! History of the Mexican American Civil Rights Movement." Los Angeles: National Latino Communications Center and Galán Productions, 1996. [VC 3862]
  2. Gonzales, Manuel G. Mexicanos: A History of Mexicans in the United States. Bloomington: Indiana U. Press, 1999, 2000.
  3. Journal of Chicano Studies
  4. Maciel, David R. and María Herrera-Sobek, eds. Culture Across Borders: Mexican Immigration and Popular Culture. Tucson: U. of Arizona Press, 1998.
  5. Mendoza, Luis. Historia: The Literary Making of Chicana and Chicano History. College Station: Texas A & M University Press, 2001.
  6. Pérez-Torres, Rafael. Mestizaje: Critical Uses of Race in Chicano Culture. Minneapolis: U. of Minnesota Press, 2006.
  7. Rosales, F. Arturo. Chicano! The History of the Mexican American Civil Rights Movement. Houston: Arte Público Press, 1996.
  8. sitios del web

Cinema

  1. Fregoso, Rosa Linda. "Born in East L.A. and the 'Politics of Representation'", in Chabram-Dernersesian, Angie, ed. The Chicana/o Cultural Studies Reader. NY: Routledge, 2006, pp. 245-60.

Cubans

  1. Grenier, Guillermo J., Lisandro Pérez, Sung Chang Chun, and Hugh Gladwin."There Are Cubans, There Are Cubans, and There Are Cubans:  Ideological Diversity among Cuban Americans in Miami", in Montero-Sieburth, Martha and Edwin Meléndez, eds. Latinos in a Changing Society. Westport, CT:  Praeger, 2007, pp. 93-111.
  2. Machado, Eduardo and Michael Domitrovich. Tastes Like Cuba: An Exile's Hunger for Home. NY: Penguin, 2007.
  3. Ojito, Mirta. Finding Mañana: A Memoir of a Cuban Exodus. Penguin, 2006.
  4. Pérez Firmat, Gustavo. Next Year in Cuba: A Cubano's Coming-of-Age in America. NY: Anchor, 1995.

Dominicans

  1. Torres-Saillant, Silvio & Ramona Hernández. The Dominican-Americans. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 1998.

Education

  1. Bixler-Marquez, Dennis J. "Latinos in the Struggle for Equal Education", International Migration Review, 31, No. 2 (Summer 1997), 479-80.
  2. Brown, Sarita E., Deborah Santiago & Estela López. "Latinos in Higher Education: Today and Tomorrow," Change, 35, No. 2 (March/April 2003), pp. 40-47.
  3. Cavalcanti, H.B. and Debra Schleef. "The Melting Pot Revisited: Hispanic Density and Economic Achievement in American Metropolitan Regions," Hispanic Journal of Behavioral Sciences, 23, No. 2 (May 2001), pp. 115-30.
  4. Cockroft, James D. Latinos in the Struggle for Equal Education. NY: Franklin Watts, 1995.
  5. Contreras, A. Reynaldo and Leonard A. Valverde. "The Impact of Brown on the Education of Latinos," Journal of Negro Education, 63, No. 3 (Summer 1994), pp. 470-81.
  6. Darder, Antonia, Rodolfo D. Torres, and Henry Gutierrez, eds. Latinos and Education: A Critical Reader. NY: Routledge, 1997.
  7. Davison Aviles, Robert M., Manuel P. Guerrero, Heidi Barajas Howarth, and Glenn Thomas. "Perceptions of Chicano/Latino Students Who Have Dropped Out of School," Journal of Counseling and Development, 77, No. 4 (Fall 1999), pp. 465-73.
  8. Ginorio, Angela and Michelle Huston. ¡Sí, Se Puede! Yes, We Can: Latinas en la escuela. Washington, DC: Fundación Educativa AAUW, 2001.
  9. González, María Luisa, Ana Huerta-Macías and Josefina Villamil Tinajero, eds. Educating Latino Students: A Guide to Successful Practice. Lanham, MD: Scarecrow Press, 2002.
  10. Hernandez, Jr., Luis Sergio. "Developing a National Latino Agenda for the 21st Century," Harvard Journal of Hispanic Policy, 13 (2000/01), pp. 5-14.
  11. "Hispanic Views on Education", Education Week, 27, No. 17 (Jan 9, 2008), p. 5-?
  12. Journal of Latinos and Education.
  13. Latino Studies Journal.
  14. "Latinos in School: Some Facts and Findings," ERIC Digest No. 162. Feb. 2001.
  15. Lopez, Nancy. "The Missing Link: Latinos and Educational Opportunity Programs," Equity and Excellence in Education, 33, No. 3 (Dec 2000), pp. 53-58.
  16. Macdonald, Victoria María, John M. Botti, & Lisa Hoffman Clark. "From Visibility to Autonomy: Latinos and Higher Education in the US., 1965--2005", Harvard Educational Review, 77, No. 4 (Winter 2007), 474-504.
  17. Moll, Luis C. and Richard Ruiz. "The Schooling of Latino Children," in Suárez-Orozco, Marcelo M. and Mariela M. Páez, eds. Latinos: Remaking America. Berkeley: U. of CA Press, 2002), pp. 362-74.
  18. Nevarez, Carlos. "Mexican Americans and Other Latinos in Postsecondary Education: Institutional Influences," ERIC 459038. 2001.
  19. Reyes, Augustina. "Alternative Education: The Dark Side of Education or New Tools for Latinos to Achieve Self-Actualization," Bilingual Review, 25, No. 3 (Sept/Dec 2000), pp. 249-76.
  20. Rodriguez, Alicia P. "Latino education, Latino movement," Educational Theory, 49, No. 3 (Summer 1999), pp. 381-400.
  21. Romo, Harriett D. and Toni Falbo. Latino High School Graduation: Defying the Odds. Austin: U. of Texas Press, 1996.
  22. Tapia, Javier. "Living the Dream: The cultural model of schooling in Latino communities," Latino Studies Journal , 9, No. 1 (Winter 1998), pp. 3-27.
  23. Torre, Aida A. Nevarez. "Influencing Latino education," Education and Urban Society, 30, No. 1 (Nov. 1997), pp. 58-74.
  24. Villanueva, Irene. "Change in the educational life of Chicano families across three generations," Education and Urban Society, 29, No. 1 (Nov 1996), pp. 13-38.
  25. Walsh, Catherine E. "Schooling and the Civic Exclusion of Latinos: toward a Discourse of Dissonance," Journal of Education, 169, No. 2 (July 1987), pp. 115-31.

Fotonovelas

  1. http://www.pbs.org/independentlens/fotonovelas2/what.html

Health

  1. Tobacco Use in Minnesota: Perspectives from Latino Communities / Uso del tabaco en Minnesota: Perspectivas de las comunidades latinas. Minnesota: Blue Cross Blue Shield of Minnesota, 2006.

Hispanics

  1. Kanellos, Nicolás. The Hispanic Almanac: From Columbus to Corporate America. Detroit: Visible Ink, 1994.

Latinos

  1. Balch, Rosita, Erica Lepp, et. al. Latino Voices: Stories of Latin American Immigrants and their Impact in a Community. Minneapolis: Resource Center of the Americas, 2000.
  2. Darder, Antonio & Rodolfo D. Torres, eds. The Latino Studies Reader: Culture, Economy and Society. Malden, Mass: Blackwell, 1998.
  3. Davis, Mike. Magical Urbanism: Latinos Reinvent the U.S. City. London: Verso, 2001.
  4. De la Garza, Rodolfo O., Luis Desipio, F. Chris García, John García, & Angelo Falcon. Latino Voices: Mexican, Puerto Rican, and Cuban Perspectives on American Politics. Boulder: Westview Press, 1992.
  5. Delgado, Richard and Jean Stefancic, eds. The Latino/a Condition: A Critical Reader. NY: New York U. Press, 1998.
  6. González, Juan. Harvest of Empire: A History of Latinos in America. NY: Viking, Penguin, 2000.
  7. Luis, William. "Latino US Literature", in Swanson, Philip, ed. The Companion to Latin American Studies. London: Arnold, 2003, pp. 122-53.
  8. Romero, Mary and Michelle Habell-Pallán. Latino/a Popular Culture. NY: New York Univ. Press, 2002.
  9. Shorris, Earl. Latinos: A Biography of the People. W. W. Norton, 2001.
  10. Suárez-Orozco, Marcelo M. and Mariela Páez. Latinos: Remaking America. Berkeley: U. of California Press, 2002.
  11. Thomas, Lorrin. "'How They Ignore Our Rights as American Citizens': Puerto Rican Migrants and the Politics of Citizenship in the New Deal Era", in Oboler, Suzanne, ed. Latinos and Citizenship: The Dilemma of Belonging. NY: Palgrave Macmillan, 2006, pp. 33-58.
  12. Tienda, Marta and Faith Mitchell, eds. Multiple Origins, Uncertain Destinies: Hispanics and the American Future. Washington D.C.: National Research Council, 2006.
  13. Web

Literature

  1. Alvarez, Julia. Homecoming. Penguin, 1996.
  2. Aragón, Francisco, ed. The Wind Shifts: New Latino Poetry. Tucson: U. of Arizona Press, 2007.
  3. Day, Frances Ann. Latina and Latino Voices in Literature. Updated, expanded. Portsmouth, NH: Greenwood Press, 2003.
  4. Pérez-Torres, Rafael. Movements in Chicano Poetry: Against Myths, Against Margins. Cambridge U. Press, 1995.
  5. Tatum, Charles M. Chicano Literature. Boston: Twayne, 1982.
  6. _____. Chicano and Chican Literature: otra voz del pueblo. Tucson: U. of Arizona Press, 2006.
  7. Sitios del web

Music

  1. Aparicio, FR. Listening to Salsa: Gender, Latin Popular Music, and Puerto Rican Cultures. Hanover, NH: Wesleyan Press, 1998.
  2. Cepeda, María Elena. "'Columbus Effect(s)': Chronolgy and Crossover in the Latin(o) Music 'Boom'", Discourse, 23, No. 1 (Winter 2001), 63-81.
  3. Fernández, Raúl A. From Afro-Cuban Rhythms to Latin Jazz. Berkeley: U. of California Press, 2006.
  4. Hernández, Deborah Pacini. "Bachata: From the Margins to the Mainstream", Popular Music, 11, No. 3 (Oct 1992), 359-64.
  5. Lao-Montes, Agustín and Arlene Davila.Mambo Montage: The Latinization of New York City. NY: Columbia U. Press, 2001.
  6. Manuel, Peter. "Puerto Rican Music and Cultural Identity: Creative Appropriation of Cuban Sources from Danza to Salsa", Ethnomusicology, 38, No. 2 (Spring-Summer 1994), 249-80. (JSTOR)
  7. _____. "Latin Music in the United States: Salsa and the Mass Media", Journal of Communication, 41, No. 1 (1991), 104-16.
  8. Morales, Ed. The Latin Beat: The Rhythms and Roots of Latin Music from Bossa Nova to Salsa and Beyond. Cambridge, Mass: Da Capo Press/Perseus Books, 2003.
  9. Padilla, Felix M. "Salsa Music as a Cultural Expression of Latino Consciousness and Unity", Hispanic Journal of Behavioral Sciences, 11, No. 1 (Feb 1989), 28-45.
  10. _____. "Salsa: Puerto Rican and Latino Music", The Journal of Popular Culture, 24, Issue 1 (Summer 1990), 87.....
  11. Pérez-Torres, Rafael. "Popular Music and Postmodern Mestizaje", in his Mestizaje: Critical Uses of Race in Chicano Culture. Minneapolis:  U. of Minnesota Press, 2006, pp. 85-113.
  12. _____. "Chicano Hip Hop and Postmodern Mestizaje", in Chabram-Dernersesian, Angie, ed. The Chicana/o Cultural Studies Reader. NY: Routledge, 2006, pp. 324-39.
  13. Roberts, J.S. The Latin Tinge: The Impact of Latin American Music on the United States. 2nd ed. NY, Oxford: Oxford U. Press, 1999.
  14. Sánchez González, Lisa. "Reclaiming Salsa", in Chabram-Dernersesian, Angie, ed. The Chicana/o Cultural Studies Reader. NY:  Routledge, 2006, pp. 340-51.
  15. Simonett, Helena. "Narcocorridos: An Emerging Micromusic of Nuevo L.A.", Ethnomusicology, 45, No. 2 (Spring-Summer 2001), 315-37. (JSTOR)
  16. Singer, Roberta L. "Tradition and Innovation in Contemporary Latin Popular Music in New York City", Latin American Music Review/Revista de Música Latinoamericana, 4, No. 2 (Autumn 1983), 183-202. (JSTOR)
  17. Steward, Sue. ¡Música! The Rhythm of Latin America. San Francisco: Chronicle Books, 1999.
  18. Varela, Chuy. "Latino Music in Review", Latino USA, 1999. [PDF]
  19. Zimmerman, Marc. "Erasure, Imposition and Crossover of Puerto Ricans and Chicanos in US Film and Music Culture", Latinos Studies, 1 (2003), 115-22.
  20. Web:

Puerto Rico

  1. Meléndez, Edwin. "Changes in the Characteristics of Puerto Rican Migrants to the United States", in Montero-Sieburth, Martha and Edwin Meléndez, eds. Latinos in a Changing Society. Westport, CT:  Praeger, 2007, pp. 112-31.
  2. Web

Religion

  1. "Changing Faiths: Latinos and the Transformation of American Religion". Washington D.C.: Pew Hispanic Center, 2007.